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RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh special prosecutor TC Pandya on Friday claimed that civil rights activist Dr Binayak Sen's wife Ilina was in correspondence with the ISI a huge gaffe. For, the ISI she had links with was the Indian Social Institute, not the Pakistani intelligence agency.
Pandya was deposing in a local sessions court and said that Sen had dealings not just with local Maoist networks but also international terrorist groups as well.
He claimed Sen had links with international terrorist organisations and in that connection named Yaseen Malik of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front ( JKLF) and Asgar Khan of Al Qaeda, among others.
Then he delivered the punchline. He read out an email Ilina had purportedly written to "some Fernandes of the ISI". This said: "There is a chimpanzee in the White House."
Pandya smelt mischief in the missive: "This may be code language... this perhaps means terrorists are annoyed with the US... We do not know who this Fernandes is, but ISI, as we all know, means Pakistan."
Later, outside the court, Sen clarified ISI stood for the Indian Social Institute. 'Fernandes' possibly referred to Walter Fernandes, former director of the Indian Social Institute, a social science research body set up by Jesuits in 1951 on New Delhi's Lodhi Road.
Fernandes, now director of the North Eastern Social Research Institute in Guwahati told TOI: "Ilina and I are good friends and we frequently exchanged correspondence on development-induced displacement among tribals, which has
been my subject for the last 20 years."
He described the prosecution's attempt to interpret ISI (Indian Social Institute) as Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence and link it to Sen as "either ignorance or bad will".
Sen is an award-winning doctor and national vice-president of the People's Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL). He was arrested in Bilaspur on May 14 2007, and charged with treason, conspiracy, waging war against the state, being a member of an illegal organization.
The charges are drawn from the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (1967), the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act (2005), and the IPC. The chargesheet runs into more than 1,000 pages. The Chhattisgarh government's case against Sen is that he met jailed Maoist ideologue Narayan Sanyal 33 times in Raipur prison between May 26 and June 30 2007, carrying his letters and passing these on to Piyush Guha, a Kolkata businessman. Since May 2008, Sen is facing trial in a local court along with Sanyal and Guha. The trial has entered its final stages, with the SC asking the sessions court to wrap it up by January 2011.
Presenting final arguments, the prosecution focused at length on Sen's alleged key role in the urban network of the CPI Maoist. It used as evidence documents it claims the police seized from his home, including two postcards written by alleged Maoist leaders in which Sen has been addressed as 'comrade'. "Comrade usi ko kahaa jaata hai jo Maowadi hai (only a Maoist is addressed as comrade)," Pandya claimed. The prosecution sought to summarise the evidence for the conspiracy. It tried to establish the close links between Sanyal and Sen, and the meetings between Sen and Guha. For the first link, it primarily relied on the testimony of Deepak Choubey, who said he rented out a house to Sanyal on Sen's recommendation.
To prove the second link, it based its arguments on Guha's custodial confession as well as the testimony of cloth merchant Anil Singh, who claims to be present when Guha was arrested in Raipur on station road on May 6, 2007, with Sanyal's letters.
Read more: Delhi institute mistaken for Pakistan intelligence agency - The Times of India Delhi institute mistaken for Pakistan intelligence agency - The Times of India
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Pandya was deposing in a local sessions court and said that Sen had dealings not just with local Maoist networks but also international terrorist groups as well.
He claimed Sen had links with international terrorist organisations and in that connection named Yaseen Malik of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front ( JKLF) and Asgar Khan of Al Qaeda, among others.
Then he delivered the punchline. He read out an email Ilina had purportedly written to "some Fernandes of the ISI". This said: "There is a chimpanzee in the White House."
Pandya smelt mischief in the missive: "This may be code language... this perhaps means terrorists are annoyed with the US... We do not know who this Fernandes is, but ISI, as we all know, means Pakistan."
Later, outside the court, Sen clarified ISI stood for the Indian Social Institute. 'Fernandes' possibly referred to Walter Fernandes, former director of the Indian Social Institute, a social science research body set up by Jesuits in 1951 on New Delhi's Lodhi Road.
Fernandes, now director of the North Eastern Social Research Institute in Guwahati told TOI: "Ilina and I are good friends and we frequently exchanged correspondence on development-induced displacement among tribals, which has
been my subject for the last 20 years."
He described the prosecution's attempt to interpret ISI (Indian Social Institute) as Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence and link it to Sen as "either ignorance or bad will".
Sen is an award-winning doctor and national vice-president of the People's Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL). He was arrested in Bilaspur on May 14 2007, and charged with treason, conspiracy, waging war against the state, being a member of an illegal organization.
The charges are drawn from the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (1967), the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act (2005), and the IPC. The chargesheet runs into more than 1,000 pages. The Chhattisgarh government's case against Sen is that he met jailed Maoist ideologue Narayan Sanyal 33 times in Raipur prison between May 26 and June 30 2007, carrying his letters and passing these on to Piyush Guha, a Kolkata businessman. Since May 2008, Sen is facing trial in a local court along with Sanyal and Guha. The trial has entered its final stages, with the SC asking the sessions court to wrap it up by January 2011.
Presenting final arguments, the prosecution focused at length on Sen's alleged key role in the urban network of the CPI Maoist. It used as evidence documents it claims the police seized from his home, including two postcards written by alleged Maoist leaders in which Sen has been addressed as 'comrade'. "Comrade usi ko kahaa jaata hai jo Maowadi hai (only a Maoist is addressed as comrade)," Pandya claimed. The prosecution sought to summarise the evidence for the conspiracy. It tried to establish the close links between Sanyal and Sen, and the meetings between Sen and Guha. For the first link, it primarily relied on the testimony of Deepak Choubey, who said he rented out a house to Sanyal on Sen's recommendation.
To prove the second link, it based its arguments on Guha's custodial confession as well as the testimony of cloth merchant Anil Singh, who claims to be present when Guha was arrested in Raipur on station road on May 6, 2007, with Sanyal's letters.
Read more: Delhi institute mistaken for Pakistan intelligence agency - The Times of India Delhi institute mistaken for Pakistan intelligence agency - The Times of India
---------- Post added at 07:15 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:15 AM ----------
